GOP Rep. John Culberson Gets An Earful From Angry Voters

Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) faced a hostile audience at a town hall meeting in his home district on Saturday and was even booed by constituents when the topic of health care came up.A clip shared online showed members of the Houston-area audience chanting Fix it! at the congressman.The only way to fix it is to replace it, Culberson said, causing the voters in the room to erupt in jeers.Crowd chants "fix it" as opposed to repealing ACA. @CongCulberson says replace it. Crowd says NO. This clip sums up the townhall. #fliptx07 pic.twitter.com/pJLZ9fnBwh Sarah Bronson (@usewordsbetter) March 25, 2017 At other times, the crowd chanted, Do your job! CBS affiliate KHOU reported.Culberson was booed several times, including when he spoke about President Donald Trump, the Texas Tribune reported.However, Culberson also told the crowd he was opposed to Trumps proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Arts and vowed to use aggressive oversight to ensure immigration enforcement focused on felons and dangerous criminals.Angry voters have beenturning upat town halls held by GOP lawmakersin recent months. Some politicians have blamed paid protesters while others have stopped holding the eventsaltogether.On Twitter, Culberson said he enjoyed hearing the thoughts and concerns of his constituents.The expressions on some of the faces in the audience suggest the feeling may not have been entirely mutual:Thank you to everyone who came to today's #TownHall. I enjoyed hearing the thoughts and concerns of #TX07. pic.twitter.com/7BfO7lncja John Culberson (@CongCulberson) March 25, 2017 While Culberson easily won re-election to a ninth term in 2016, Hillary Clinton actually beat Trump by a narrow margin in his district,and some voters said their representative needs to reflect the will of a changing demographic if he hopes to keep his job.The ideology amongst the constituents is changing, and hes still very hard-line Republican, Abraham Espinosa, 26, told the Houston Chronicle.Espinosa was among the audience of 700 people, with another 500 who couldnt get into the town hall due to space. He became a citizen in November and warned that hell be voting soon. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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